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wawadave · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:59 pm Post subject:

hello suzi and every one else!
i have found google to not direct a lot of search lately for things and exspecialy for free ware to paid for product pages instead. i now recomend to people to use the"dog pile" search engine instead of google as it so far gives an honest search.
googlelers you have been warned!!!!!!!
this is my opinion and not thw web sights! Evil or Very Mad

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suzi · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject:

Good suggestion Dave. Very Happy

I'm beginning to have serious doubts about Google's integrity and ethics on some things. Evil or Very Mad

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cpm · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:37 am Post subject:

hi....i sent my complaint to google last week and seemed to have got the same standard reply that everyone else is getting.
thanks we will check it out more or less

this address below for spyhunter
www.spybot-download.com ... (it even says Welcome to Spybot Download on it.)
is an absolute disgrace as it not only uses the word spybot but the word download.com as well .......ive lost count of the times ive posted help to people and said use spybot you can get it from download.com.

trekblue have even had the nerve to open another (albeit deserted) help forum http://forums.trekblue.com/
wonder how long this will be open before it disappears. Shocked

wawadave · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:03 am Post subject:

hello
i tried your link cpm. but i,m useing mozilia at the moment and it only comes up with a page thats in hmtl code full codeing shown.
but there is a place www.download.com owned by c/net and it has spybot serch and destroy in its lists among 40,000 other programs.and may even have the imposters there. not seen them. my point is the download.com people are pointng to witch one is it?
thx. have a nice day
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cpm · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:32 am Post subject:

hi..
download.com do have the genuine spybot if you type it in their search ,if you type in spyware you get pages and pages of all kinds of spyware removers .there are two sponsored ads on the spybot download page from enigma though

i wasnt aware of these links on the right hand side that could quite easily fool the new pc user when they google for spybot
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=spybot&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

there seems to be links all over the web pretending to be spybot Crying or Very sad

cya

wawadave · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject:

god i hate the way these people. masquerade as spybot!
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tanjnt · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

Did a Google search for "spybot". Didn't have any trouble finding the real thing.

There were some useless results, but I didn't notice any ads. Probably there would have been some misleading links if I had dug deeper.
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wawadave · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

goggle has since changed there ways they got tired of the letters and other things and decided to not be dishonest any more!
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Harry Letterman · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject:

ghost_of_terror · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:23 am Post subject:

Nick · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

I did a few searches on dogpile.com and the result was not encouraging. Anything with spyware in the search is filled with links to crapware with a few legit entries. It does say sponsored link, but they are mixed in with all of the legit results. Rolling Eyes

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wawadave · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject:

this saying to use dogpile was done at a time google was sending people looking for spybot to bogus spyware programs instead. and now dogpile is sending them there.
well things change on the net wait .5 seconds . it will change only seems to get worse.
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webworm98 · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject:

AltaVista is now doing it as well.

He has update his news at
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/index.html

The Flying Dutchman · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:32 am Post subject: Gooooogle Ads

Yes forum members,

This is a development lately, that we all (will come to) regret. The Web of Old is slowly being turned into one gigantic advert with a bit of useful information in between. If you go to the Ben Edelman site an reads his founded critique, you soon know what I am talking about. First there is the marketeer (and Google also has fallen into their hands as it seems), then the spyware makers follow, next are the malware creators, and the malcreants finish the job with their spam product. The protection of the end-user, especially in the privacy field is minimal, while the big commercial interest is not hampered one bit apparently,

greets,

The Flying Dutchman
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Angoid · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:20 am Post subject:

Only just seen this, and I know it's well over a year since the last post, but I have *never* been impressed with Google's Sponsored Links.

They always take you to irrelevant sites that frequently give the exact opposite of what I'm looking for.

I now Googled "Spybot" and this sponsored link was given (amongst others):

www-SpyBoot.com
This had the following text on it, tucked into the left-hand corner: